Daughters of Union Veterans Hold July Birthday Dinner
The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War served a chicken dinner in Memorial hall to about 60 comrades wives and members to honor July and August birthdays. Committee members were Mmes A J Rodenhaver Mary Woore W C Clemens and HE A Shirley. Serving was by Mmes Nellie Davis W A Larsen J H Rickert and James McNauee. The hall featured garden flowers and honored comrades Simon Shaulis Isaac Gushard Joshua Klingaman and Henry Woore. Mrs May Walker led talks with other comrades and post dinner social music provided diversion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughters of Union Veterans
Memorial Hall
Mmes
A. J. Rodenhaver
Mary Woore
W. C. Clemens
HE. A. Shirley
Nellie Davis
W. A. Larsen
J. H. Rickert
James McNauee
Simon Shaulis
Isaac Gushard
Joshua Klingaman
Henry Woore
May Walker
W H Spectator Staff Reunion to Be Annual Event
West High Spectator staff reunion, held at Donald Bickley’s home, 1501 Kimball avenue, is planned as an annual affair. Twenty three former staff members attended with Miss Mary Grace Tippet of Rockford Ind as staff advisor and guest of honor. Betty Bickley hosted with Betty Wurster and Mildred Berry assisting. dancing was the main activity. Miss Tippet and her sister Alice will leave tomorrow morning after visiting Geraldine Brinkman, 406 Vermont boulevard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West High Spectator
Donald Bickley
Kimball Avenue
Mary
Grace Tippet
Rockford
Betty Bickley
Betty Wurster
Mildred Berry
Miss ‘Tippet
Alice
Geraldine Brinkman
Vermont Boulevard
Birthday Party for Mary Lindner at 232 Oliver Street
Mary Lindner hostesses entertained about 20 relatives and friends yesterday for her daughter Mary Katherine’s sixth birthday. Guests included Genevieve Kurtz Billy Girsch Florence Saley and more. Out-of-town visitors from Chicago were Gertrude Weiden Mildred McNahon and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. B. Lindner
Oliver Street
Mary Katherine
Genevieve Kurtz
Dolan
Gertrude
Lorraine
Weiden
Mildred
Jerome McNahon
Raymond
Edward
Rosemary
Smith
Loretta Pred- Tick
Chicago
Gertrude Weiden
Genevieve
Ehurtz
Yeomen Dance at Temple and Club Events Dense Crowd
Tonight’s schedule lists Yeomen dance at K P hall and Temple Rebekah at Black Hawk hall. A dinner dance is set for the Country Club with Saturday afternoon events featuring FE P BE and Mrs. A B Lovejoy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Hall
Temple Rebekah
Black Hawk Hall
Country Club
P. BE
A. B. Lovejoy
Ruth Fressle Honored At Farewell Party
The Waterloo Business and Professional Women's club hosts a luncheon in Black's tearoom tomorrow noon to honor Ruth Fressle, BPW secretary, who leaves Monday for Honolulu. She is the first Waterloo member to go abroad on business. Attendees include Glenna Johnson and others. after the gift, guests go to Mrs. Glenna Johnson's home to play bridge. tables decorated in gold and lavender with garden flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Black
Ruth Fressle
Honolulu
Miss Fressle
Waterloo
Minies
Glenna Johnson
Helen Swinbank
Elizabeth Kenney
Emma Bolensieser
Nina Stroul
Katherine Barton
Ruth Hamlin
Mae Keller
Hazel Zwanzinger
Bernice Ravelin
Martha Taylor
Maple Street
Russell- Lamson
Loretta Mishak
Los Angeles
Cal
Strand Theatre
Viola Mishak
Madeline Sims
Avilla Sims
Arlene Lucas
Bertha Kopel
Agnes Keegan
Beatrice Shares
Margaret Miller
Alice Fressle Dawson
Florence Roth
Helen L
Miss Lichty Hosts Luncheon for Former Associates
Edna Lichty entertained seven friends at a noon luncheon in Black's tearoom to honor associates from her Fairbank teaching days. Invited guests included Emma Lou Aderman and Bess Aderman of Los Angeles, J S Shafer of Oelwein, Charles Burtch of Osage, Eva May Gormly of Crawfordsville, Hazel Nelson of Hazelton, and Ethel Lichty of Waterloo. The afternoon featured bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Lichty
Black's
Fairbank
Emma Lou Aderman
Bess Aderman
Los Angeles
Cal
J. S. Shafer
Oelwein
Charles Burtch
Osage
Eva May Gormly
Crawfordsville
Hazel Nelson
Hazelton
Ethel Lichty
Waterloo
Former School Friends Honored on Thursday
Mrs. Harold H. Patterson hosted eight former school friends at 204 Hillcrest Apartments to honor those departing to study and teach. Guests included Eloise Burton, Mary Cowin, Anna Marie Decker, Wilma Hey, Betty Lamkin, Gladys Towne, Marjorie Wheelock, and Betty Williams. Refreshments followed a bridge afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold H. Patterson
Hillcrest Apartments
Bridge
Eloise Burton
Mary Cowin
Anna Marie Decker
Wilma Hey
Betty Lamkin
Gladys Towne
Marjorie Wheelock
Betty Williams
Few Marys Among Brides of June
In Santa Ana California August notes list June brides at the county courthouse. Among eighty nine brides excluding Spanish entrants, Mary names are scarce though Mays appear as a contraction. Margarets lead with four licenses naming Mrs. John, while others include Martha Florence Gladys Elizabeth Betty Evelyn Grace Velma Manna Ethel Ruth Lillian Alma Xenia and rarer Zelda Jovita. Grooms favor traditional titles on cards.
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Santa Ann
Cal
Mary
Orange County
Court House
Mary Dane
Mary Ann
Martha
Florence
Gladys
Elizabeth
Betty
Evelyn
Grace
Velma
Manna
Ethel
Ruth
Lillian
Alma
Xenia
Zelda
Jovita
John So
Hints in Beauty Care for Clear Complexion
This week discusses clearing up the complexion with simple diets and daily treatments for pimples and blackheads. It advises washing with soap, using antiseptic castile soap, applying a half ether half alcohol cotton treatment to pimples, letting it dry, and night use of zinc or sulfur ointment to prevent re infection.
Hard battle in court viewed in Londergan scale
Friends of Ivan G. Londergan forecast a hard court battle as federal prosecutors pursue charges of using the mails to defraud. Arrest in Fargo signals a wider crackdown on associates of the Medical Life Insurance Loan & Investment Co. mastermind, with officials hoping to trap the woman angle and unravel losses to Iowa farmers and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivan G. Londergan
Medical Life Insurance Company
Fargo
N. D
Londergan
Medical Life and Insurance Loan & Investment Co
Ivan Gay
Dubuque
Waterloo
Louisville
Iowa
United States
Uncle Sam
Berlin's Rummelsberg plant runs on coal dust
Berlin reports a new state electric plant at Rummelsberg near Berlin uses coal dust, once waste, as furnace fuel. The facility, a $20 million, 12 story office complex, heats boilers with dried ground coal dust transported by canal cranes. One hour of turbogen electricity could light a five room house for 150 years. Only about 60 workers supervise the plant at a time.
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Berlin
Rummelsberg
Baltimore Sun
Sik Mill, Family Owned for 117 Years, May Close Soon
Mansfield Conn Aug 19 The oldest silk manufacturing business in the United States founded in 1810 by Rodney Hanks and run by his descendants faces imminent closure after 117 years. The mill, in a corner of town near Hanks Hill, has stayed in repair though its third building. The current owner’s son prefers insurance as a business, making it unlikely the mill will be handed to a next generation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfield
Conn
United States
Rodney Hanks
Hanks Hill
George Rodney
Complete optical service at Muchepan’s Bids
Local notices report a complete optical service to be offered at Muchepan’s Bids. Residents Ronald Thompson of Dubuque visits grandparents in town. Rodney Baldwin of Chicago comes to Waterloo for the weekend. Several family travel plans, relocations, and medical updates are noted, including a child’s post operative recovery at St Francis hospital and a move of McGuire drug store to a new building on Fifth Street West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muchepan
W. T. Rose
Luella
Argyle Street
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
McGuire Drug Store
Baltimore Street
McGuire
Fifth Street
George McGuire
Visit to the Black Hills Impress North Dakota travelers
A party from New England led by Henry Melass and family, and with Ritze’s brother, toured the Black Hills and Dakotas. They praised fine roads and crops, and the scenery as worth the long drive. Miss Florence Bishop and Marie Widmer, Monticello, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bishop at 712 Riverside Drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Bishop
Marie Widmer
Monticello
Mrs. H. E. Bishop
Riverside Drive
Farmer Welsh Recovers After Neck Spine Surgery
William Welsh, 38, a farmer near Manchester, was treated at St. Francis hospital after sustaining a neck spine fracture in an accident on August 6. Doctors reported hopeful prospects as he underwent surgery yesterday to repair the damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
R. J. Baldridge
St. Francis Hospital
Waterloo
William “Welsh
Manchester
Welsh
Welsh patient shows improvement after operation
Late yesterday a wagon incident left a patient paralyzed from a Hospital operation. Welsh was able to move his lower limbs and today further improvement was observed, with a fair chance of recovery.
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J. E. O'Keefe
Matthew E. O'Keefe
Council Bluffs
Matthew
San Francisco
Cal
Frisco
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W. H. Spectator
Mary Lindner
Matlyss
Tracy ‘Woodruff
Central” ‘Christian’ Church
Central Christian ‘Church
C. B
el- Ayéon
Castle “Hill
W. D
Endres
P.L. Panner
Pearl Ellis
Gladys Arnold
Margaret Kilgore
Gertie Clemens
Anna Lohner
Missionary Society
Lutheran Missionary Society
Ernoon
Louisa Hagerman
John M. Williams
Society Calendar
Miss Lichty
Edna Kent Forbes
Sik
Ronald Thompson
Dubuque, Ia
Mr. and
Ani E. Thompson
Franklin Street
Rodney Baldwin
W. H. Freeland
Fred Baldwin
Hudson
Margaret Fitzgerald
Western Avenue
West
Yellowstone Park
Pacific Coast
Harry Hackett
Rainbow Drive
Colorado
Charles Meckett
Charles Hackett
Elvin ‘V. Willey
Tulsa
Okla
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Willey
Waterloo Evening Courier
Tulsa Tribune
Willford
Izaak Walton League
Sioux City
Walton
Crystal Jake
Nebraska
Harry Erwin
John W. Ritze
Marian
Heinz
E. 4Th St
Georie Shoe Co
Buster Browns
Brownbilt & Endicott Johnson
Farmer
Booth Joseph
Booth Joseph Co
Sycamore
Bugs
Edelson
Waterloo’s
Fashion Department
Courier
Lambert Pharmacal Co
Dept
G-6
Locust St
St. Louis
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